Relationship Between Knowledge and Attitudes of Pregnant Women with Participation in Pregnancy Exercise at Puskesmas Pariaman

According to the WHO (World Health Organization), WHO estimated that every years more than 585 thousand mothers die during pregnancy or childbirth. Pregnancy exercised was one of the promotive and preventive effort to reduced IMR and AKI. Childbirth is a monumental time for a woman. The research objective was to determined the relationship between attitude and knowledge of pregnant women and participation in pregnancy exercise at the Pariaman Health Care in 2019.This researched was quantitative, while the type of researched used is cross sectional researched. This researched was conducted at Pariaman Public Health Center from June until July 2019. The population in this studied were pregnant women on the third trimester, the sample was taken as many as 42 people.The results of this research analysis show that more than half of respondent knowledges (52.4%) is still low. More than half of the respondents' attitudes (54.8%) are still negative. More than half of the respondents (64.3%) did not participate in pregnancy exercise. There was a significant relationship between participation and knowledges in pregnancy exercise, with p value of 0.005 < 0.05. There was a significant relationship among attitudes and participation in pregnancy exercise, with p value of 0.001 < 0.05.It is hoped that health workers will play a more active role in providing counseling and increasing information about pregnancy exercise both to pregnant women who are at the polindes or other meeting places. Increased promotion can be by distributing leaflets or brochures containing information about the benefits of pregnancy exercise.